From the course: 43 Ideas for Starting a Side Business

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Start a lawn care business

Start a lawn care business

From the course: 43 Ideas for Starting a Side Business

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Start a lawn care business

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- If you want a great low-barrier entry into business, you can't do much better than lawn care or landscaping. This is a great way to make money, either on the side or as a quote unquote real business. Now, this is something I can vouch for personally because this was how I got my whole start in business. When I started my landscape company as a 20-year-old entrepreneur, I didn't even have a work truck. I used my Volkswagen Golf to carry a cheap lawn mower and some cheap used landscape equipment. In a matter of one year, that business was employing several people and had two trucks, four sets of equipment, and I was paying my way through college. I'm not saying you have to be as ambitious about it, but there's a reason it's the most common new business started in the US each year. It's because the market is huge and will always be here. Here's how to get started. Get your basic equipment to mow and edge and blow lawns.…

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